Kim Jong-un Dead?

 About 3 days ago....the story started up....he'd had a health issue...went into a coma, and gotten flown into China for care....dying there (so the story goes).

Gov't of North Korea....so far....no comment.

Why?  They did publish a pic today....of a guy who looks like Kim.  Might be recent.....might be from a year ago.

If he were dead?  They need a 40-page script to detail his passing and his final hours.  His sister in charge?  Well....that's the angle of the problem.....I think the leadership wants to bypass her.

Three Observations

 1.  I watch around 30 min a day of the France riot BS.  

Just odd....it seems that the French protester crowd has some type of demand for more socialism....to resolve the mess created by the current socialism.

Someone needs to invent socialism-plus.

2.  Frank Luntz (the polling expert) did a interview and readily admits....Trump-voters, for the most part....if approached and asked about their feelings...will turn and walk away....giving no indication of how they feel.

Luntz admits....poll-folks have never encountered this problem before.  Asked to explain it....he says these people don't believe poll organizations are being 'honest'.

3.  The only difference between Russia's Putin and Stalin?  At the 30-day point of the war....where failure was obvious....Stalin would have brought in the top general of the invasion force and had him shot....repeating this every thirty days until the war was won.

The Omar Wine 'Drama'

 So it's a weird story.  I would the FBI guys on this part of the Ilhan Omar investigation are shaking their heads.

Omar and the husband....about seven years ago....start a wine company....selling one type of wine (labeled 'The Devil's Lie'). First year or two....nothing much to brag about. Sales did started to pick up.

The problem....no one can show much over actual wine (no vineyards).  They can show wine bottles procured....wine boxes shipped.  But liquids such as wine.

It just appears to be a money-laundering operation....where someone had cash but no way to move it.   So they bought empty wine bottles (of value).

The other end of this story?  Well....you have to start wondering about a lot of wine companies in California....if they run fake wine sales....to help laundry money?

Case now involving the husband too?  Yeah....oddly, he's a participant in the mess.